Polyglot Bible: Tobias: Tobias 5

This is a scholarly parallel-text edition of chapter 5 of the Book of Tobit (also called Tobias), a deuterocanonical/apocryphal narrative from Second Temple Judaism, presented in three versions side by side: an English translation of the Apocrypha, two slightly divergent Greek Septuagint manuscripts, and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter depicts young Tobias setting out to recover money his blind father Tobit deposited in Media, hiring a travel companion who turns out — unknown to them — to be the angel Raphael in disguise, introducing himself as "Azarias son of Ananias." The scene dramatizes Tobit's careful vetting of his son's companion through genealogical questioning, his negotiation of wages, and his faithful blessing of the journey, while Tobias's mother Anna voices a competing, more anxious parental perspective, preferring her son's safety over any financial recovery. The distinctive interest of this presentation lies in its textual-critical dimension: placing the two Septuagint recensions alongside the Vulgate allows readers to observe meaningful variation between manuscript traditions — the longer recension adds detail such as Tobit's lament about his blindness and Raphael's more explicit reassurance, while the shorter is more spare. For those interested in biblical apocrypha, angelology, or the history of the biblical text, it offers both the narrative itself and a compact comparative apparatus for studying how the story was transmitted.

Polyglot Bible: Tobias: Tobias 5

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